Swamp Bats

Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or bats:

“The woman may serve as a vehicle for the rapist expressing his rage against a world that gives him pain—because he is poor, or oppressed, or mad, or simply human. Then what of her? We have waded in the swamp of compassion for him long enough.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)

“Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)